A new Aion "Vision Trailer" on the YouTube shows off a number of changes planned for NCsoft's MMORPG, including revamped visuals, swimming, underwater cities, mounts, new skills, and more. Thanks Steve O.

I haven't had to mob-grind much in Champions Online. Save for the 1-2 perks I shot for when I realized I was already 1/2 or 3/4 there.

People were complaining about the lack of missions early on. Perhaps they were right, but I've started a few characters in the last few weeks and haven't run out of content for them so either I know where to look or they added some more.

Besides, the only thing forth "buying" with the in-game gold are respecs / retcons. Everything else is just craft-able.

This comment was edited on Nov 24, 2009, 14:22.

"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

And just think, in order to access all this new content all you need to do is repetitively kill tens of thousands of bland NPCs.

I chucked the game at level 22 when my quest log was empty of anything other than "repeatable" quests, and math told me I needed over 500 kills merely to advance to 23, where there was perhaps two more quests waiting for me before I return to the same repeatable quests, now worth even LESS xp than before.

The game is not overrun with bots because of "gold" farmers. Its overrun by bots being operated by regular players that want to progress but are bored to tears of the grind. Even the most hardcore guilds have adopted an open acceptance of bot grinding in this one.

Shame. Aion appears to have a lot going for it. But its simply not accessible to the average gamer.

NP Blue. I figured i'd owed you one after the bum info I sent about the SW MMO. Anywho....the video looks sweet. Just to add to what blue wrote....Player housing, seiges, tameable mounts, fighting mounts, ect